Obviously Bill Belicheck is playing the role of Karl Rove. But it is much deeper then that. The media (playing the role of the media) and the referees (playing the role of the pundits, courts, FEC, etc).
Of course now folks are awakening, at the last minute and after it is too late to do anything, to the fact the cheating in every which way has been going on for years.
Of course Rove was a win at all costs cheater well before the 2000 Selection. From youthful breaking and entering into oponents offices to steal stationary and run false flag operations, smearing Judicial candidates as pedophiles, or bugging his own office in yet another false flag operation, and of course manipulating votes counts Rove's modus operendi was there in plain site for anybody who wanted to see it.
With New England, there was of course getting caught at the beginning of this season videtaping the Jets, after the league had just sent out a notice reminding folks that this was prohibited.
But what the media and league and refs chose to ignore was the obvious. The Jets' coach Mangini was looking for this because he knew it was Belicheck's M.O. since he had been on the other side two seasons before. He knew it that Belicheck had been doing this all along. And the league and media knew too if they had wanted to.
So now we have the "revelations of the cheating to win their first super bowl back when they were the prohibitive underdogs against the St Louis "Greatest Show on Turf" Rams.
But everybody else seems to have fortgotten the on-the-field "it's not cheating if the refs don't call it" in that game. The favored Rams had the most explosive offense in the game, primarily with their passing game. To slow it up and knock it out of sync, the Patriots were hittiing and holding the Rams receivers after the first 5 yds they are allowed. It was clearly Belicheck's gameplan #1 going in. Beat up on the receivers outside of the rules. See if they can get away with it. If the Refs had called the Patriotits on it the first couple of times, then the Rams would have won by playing the games within the rules.
This consistent cheating is how they have continued to win against strong passing teams. It is no secret, but we are not supposed to disrupt the narrative by following through on the implications (no Super Bowl dynasty, no unbeaten season).
Remind you of anything?
Initially the TV announcers were calling them on it and showing the pass interference and downfield holding on the replays. They could not believe how blatant it was and how the Refs were letting Pats get away with it.
My charitable interpretation was that the Refs initially did not want to be accused of not letting the teams just play the game. They did not one big pass interference call to be blamed for deciding the game, even though NOT calling wound up deciding the game (just like Florida voting and lack of MSM response when it could have done some good). And then once they did not call it at the beginning, they were stuck with calling the game consistently.
Either that, or word had gone out to make the game close and interesting. Remember, there had been too many blow out and uninteresting Super Bowl games. The Money making enterprise needed a more interesting narrative.
Pretty soon even the game announcers stopped saying it. Learned helplessnees? Told to keep quiet? Not daring to go against the official narrative meme? "Wow a close exciting Super Bowl game for once." and "Oh my, what an exciting upset." That makes for better rating and more money for everybody involved then, being honest and calling the integrity of game and win into question.
We would not want to disturb Bread-&-Circus Capitalism (or American democracy) by calling into question the legitimacy of the results. Work the media and those who are supposed to be the independent Refs... make it so they dare not say the emperor has no clothes. Too much at stake to tell the truth early, on time, and often.
I want every receiving route to count!
Heck, I want a re-count!
I could go on with the analogy, pointing out the that losing quarterback, Kurt Warner is one of the few honest devout Christians in pro sports (devout, open but not pushy, does not pray for victory, does not suggest god wants him to win, stays with one wife his own age, adopts her kids, etc.). Yet again a case of the true good devout Christians taking one for the good of the overall game.
Oh and by the way... Go Giants!